Deterministic quantum non-locality and graph colorings

  • Authors:
  • Viktor Galliard;Alain Tapp;Stefan Wolf

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, ETH Zürich, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland;Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7;Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, CH-6904 Lugano, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

One of the most fascinating consequences of quantum theory are non-local correlations: Two-possibly distant-parts of a system can have a behavior under measurements unexplainable by shared information. A manifestation thereof is so-called pseudo-telepathy: Tasks that can be performed by two parties who share a quantum state, whereas classically, communication would be necessary to always succeed. We show that pseudo-telepathy games can often be modeled by graphs: The classical strategy to win the game is a coloring of this graph with a given number of colors. We discuss these parallels and study the class of graphs corresponding to the first two-party pseudo-telepathy game, proposed by Brassard, Cleve, and Tapp in 1999. This leads to a proof that the game indeed has the desired property.